If we were asked how the term “dog meat” is used in this country, most people would say something like: “do the wrong thing and you are dog meat” implying you are effectively a dead person … something like the phrase “game over!”
Since dogs are not an acceptable food source in the US, most people do not think you are referring to the animal as a source of food here. Well, in South Korea, the opposite is true. Watch the video here.
We have always assumed that cultural change is slow … typically requiring generations to come and go. Well, we may see quite the opposite in South Korea as a result of their hosting the Olympics. Public outrage around the world is intense.
So, who would have thought that graciously hosting a world-wide event could bring such rapid and vapid condemnation? Once again, social media takes the news cycle and amplifies voices.
Just think of what might have happened if these forces were at work back in the days when the prisoners in Maine were fed lobsters and thought they were being poisoned. At the time, they did not think you could eat lobster. In this country, lobster was then considered useful only as fertilizer or fish bait, and only in the last 100 years has it become an expensive and highly sought-after delicacy.